Waystar
Senior ML Engineer
Lehi, Utah, USA · Senior · full-time
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About the role
- Language Model (LM) Development & Fine-tuning: Research, select, and experiment with appropriate open-source Language Models (Large & Small) (e.g., Phi-3, Mistral, Llama, Nemotron-H families) for specialized tasks.
- Continuous Improvement & Research: Establish effective feedback loops from end-user interactions and system logs to identify areas for model improvement.
- Curate and expand training datasets, ensuring data privacy (PHI/PII masking) and legal compliance.
Responsibilities
- Data Pipeline & Knowledge Base Construction: Design, implement, and optimize robust pipelines for ingesting, parsing, and extracting structured information from complex documents (leveraging OCR, document layout analysis, Named Entity Recognition (NER), and Relationship Extraction (RE)).
- Develop rich, nested JSON schemas for representing structured data and ensure scalable storage Generate and manage high-quality vector embeddings for efficient retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) within a Vector Database.
- Explore and implement knowledge distillation techniques to transfer capabilities from larger models to smaller, more efficient LMs.
- Agentic System Design & Implementation: Build and maintain the core agentic framework, including the orchestrator that intelligently routes queries and coordinates interactions between various specialized LM tools.
- MLOps & Deployment: Deploy, manage, and monitor LMs and agentic components on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) using services like Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run.
- Implement robust MLOps practices for continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), model versioning, and performance monitoring (latency, throughput, accuracy).
- Stay abreast of the latest research in LMs, agentic AI, NLP, and document understanding, applying relevant advancements to our system.
- Active use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques to enhance performance, drive innovation, and improve decision-making across business functions.
- Ability to leverage AI tools and platforms to streamline workflows, improve decision-making, and drive innovation.
Requirements
- Direct experience with document processing technologies such as OCR, layout parsing, Document AI, or custom information extraction from unstructured text.
- Experience with Vector Databases (e.g., pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant) and RAG architectures.
Benefits
- Develop and integrate "tools" (specialized LMs and external APIs) that perform atomic medical necessity tasks, ensuring strict behavioral alignment and structured outputs.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of professional experience in Machine Learning Engineering, with a strong focus on NLP.
- Curiosity and adaptability in exploring emerging AI technologies, with a mindset for continuous learning and experimentation.
Company info
- We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty; kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful, optimistic & fun.
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